General Info
Artist's Bio
Ever since my childhood I have been attracted to the colors and vibrancy of glass.One simple beginner stained glass class in 1982 started my journey with glass.
Through the years working with glass has filled me with a sense of accomplishment and integrity, and it has proven to be a vehicle for translating vision into reality. My influences and inspirations come from everything that surrounds me, nature, feelings and life's experiences. Through dedication and fate in 2002, I opened my business "LeTort Glass Studio" into a full retail glass shop. It has grown with me as a artisan and currently provides, retail space for glass supplies, a gallery, and ample creative workspace. It is a full time profession as I build custom stained glass windows and doors and teach beginner to advanced glass classes.
Kiln formed and Cold working glass has provided me with a diversity in my personal body of work. Each project consists of multiple techniques and different themes. Heating glass and manipulating hot molten glass gives me the ability to form shapes, textures, and color. Sometimes happy accidents influence my next project. This also allows me to accept any mistakes. Glass has taught me a new type of patience which carries into other aspects of my life. My motivation as an artisan and a human is to always attempt to better myself. I will continue to study glass techniques avidly.
As you read on you will see that my friend Tony Zizzi gave me the Biggest Compliment anyone could receive. Thank You Tony! I repect your opinions and appreciate your talent.
Testimonial: written by "Tony Zizzi"
If you meet Deb Feller you will meet a simple, personable, humble human and a gifted artist. Yet in her internal universe dwells someone dedicated to perfection in her craft. As a glass artist she continually strives not just to be better than before but also to release her view of perfection in her various glass creations. Upon seizing the opportunity to view and study her works the public now sees more than just a simple being, and may possibly reflect and ask. "What is inside this person that drives her, compels her to attain these levels in her art?" What permits her to create these budding materpieces?"
In many of her new works she is attaining a level of creative and artistic achievement that commands a perfection of feelings to be felt by the observer. Leonardo deVinci stated, "For a work to be considered art it must have feeling." Deb Feller, with her heart and high level of ability evident in her works, is now reaching this rare pinnacle, mastering her wide array of disciplines with glass.
" What decides wheather or not something is Art is how it is experienced by its audience, not by the intention of its creator."
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Exhibits and Publications
Profitable Glass Quarterly
2006 Winter - Volume 9 - Number 4
interviewed "Letort Glass"
Harrisburg Magazine 2007 "Glass Art Combines Design and Function" by: Scott Campbell
The Garden Gallery 10 N. Hanover St. Carlisle, Pa. (717) 249-1721
"A Matter of Glass" featured glass artists - Novermber 17 - December 23 2006
Shape Gallery 7th Annual Abstract & Non - Objective Exhibition
September 4-25th, 2009
Shape Gallery Members Exhibit- April 3rd- April 25 2009
A TALE OF TWO MEDIA - FELLER & FREEMAN - Fine Art Glass & Photography - Exhibit Oct.8-Nov.2010 (CALC)
CALC "emerald" Show - Artwork by CALC'S members February 18 - March 19, 2011
Awards
Gallery of Excellence
3 rd Place & People's Choice ("Emotion")
April - 2011 Las Vegas, NV. Sponsored by: Glass Craftsman Magazine
Gallery of Excellence
FIRST PLACE: Journey "Intuitions"
April-2010 Las Vegas, NV. Sponsored by: Glass Craftsman Magazine
"Tangerine Show" (CALC)
Honorable Mention
February 2007
"Aqua" (CALC) Second Place -February 2009
Look for Letort Glass at the following local galleries:
The Garden Gallery
10 North Hanover Street
Carlisle, PA 17013
Phone: (717) 249-1721
http://thegardengallery.com
The Village Artisan's Gallery
321 Walnut Street
Boiling Springs, PA
http://www.villageartisansgallery.com
Historical Society Gallery
33 West High Street
Carlisle, PA 17013
Phone: (717) 258-9332
http://www.historicalsociety.com
Burick Center
2005 Technology Parkway, Suite 350
Mechanicsburg, PA
Phone: (717) 730-9000
http://www.burickcenter.com